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UPS Whiteboard

I was watching one of the football playoff games on TV today and saw a UPS ad that showed a guy drawing on a whiteboard. The ad invited viewers to go to an online UPS Whiteboard.

In another example of viral marketing, users can write a message, email it to a friend, and have the UPS guy write it on a whiteboard. Whoop-de-doo! It sounds weird, but it’s apparently a big sensation.

If you’ve got a few minutes of deadtime at the end of a computer lab session, you could have English Language Learners use it and then post the url of their message on a blog or online journal.

You can read more how I use viral marketing gimmicks (most are a lot better than this one) as language development tools in this article I wrote for TechLearning.

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My Second Book On Teaching ELLs

My book, "The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels," (co-authored by Katie Hull Sypnieski) was published in the Summer of 2012